Submodalities And Hypnotherapy

In the last article I mentioned in NLP terms sub-modalities. So I thought I should go over this in some detail to explain what this is before moving on with other topics of interest.

Sub-modalities are the details that make up the representations of our thoughts as I have discussed in the previous article on Representational Systems. Lets put this in context lets say you are a smoker, your a visual person and you want to quit smoking hypnosis. So we can ask what do you see when your think of smoking and a person may see them-self feeling relaxed smoking. So the first point is they actually see an image of them self smoking and also feeling relaxed while doing it.

So now we can ask the person the following question to elicit the sub-modalities of the image.

Where is the image located? - front, front low, front right etc,

Is it black and white or colour?

Is the image near or far?

Is it bright or dim?

What size is the picture?

Are you Associated (looking through own eyes) or Disassociated (see self in the image)?

Is it focused or defocused?

Is it framed or panoramic?

Is it a movie or still?

Is it 3D or flat?

We can also do this for Auditory, Kinaesthetic and Olfactory. People use multiple representational systems to represent the world they are mostly present to their preferred one and once you ask the question for all the others systems the details will emerge. Sometimes you will not elicit anything from one representational system or two still it is worth checking to see what comes out of the elicitation.

So now that we have this information what do we do with it well their are numerous things you can do with this information, I will focus on one which is manipulating the sub-modalities to create a different relationship to the initial issue. So lets go back to the smoking, we can get them to change the sub-modalities to the opposite to see what happens and how this effects how they feel about the activity. For instance change the image to black and white or colour, move the image near or far, change the size of the picture, make the picture bright or dim etc. This will change the associated feeling of the activity! We can also do the same for Auditory, Kinaesthetic, Auditory digital.

By doing this we can remove or change the way the person feels about smoking so they can dislike doing it as much as they used to like it and this is more useful. If they enjoy the activity and we want them to dislike the activity we can also elicit the sub-modalities of another activity they really dislike doing compare the two and transfer across the differences to make the activity of smoking the same as the activity they really dislike.

We can usually eliminate a negative feeling or positive feeling that may be causing a problem with a client thus solving the problem for them in the way that is more useful for the client.

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